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is it fair to say that george washington sometimes maybe we don't learn the full story about george washington? >> guest: we absolutely don't learn the full story about george washington, and one of the reasons i wrote america's hidden history and then and nation rising was to tell those stories that the school books to leave out and particularly about washington. most americans, unfortunately, still have the cherry tree story in mind when they think of him washington. of course, the story is completely manufactured by a man who did not know washington and made these stories up as a kind of reader for children, couch morality tales in terms of washington's life. so the cherry tree story we can dismiss. but unfortunately every president's day we will see the actors come out with an ax on their shoulder. though chop down the prices on cars. and so that is a stereotype of washington that gets perpetuated most people never hear the story of a 16 year-old washington, the true story, again, from his own riding of going out into the virginia wilderness but he is a teenager with some men who were very
is it fair to say that george washington sometimes maybe we don't learn the full story about george washington? >> guest: we absolutely don't learn the full story about george washington, and one of the reasons i wrote america's hidden history and then and nation rising was to tell those stories that the school books to leave out and particularly about washington. most americans, unfortunately, still have the cherry tree story in mind when they think of him washington. of course, the...
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. >> host: john in bellingham, washington, good afternoon. please go ahead with your question or comment for steven johnson. >> caller: hi, pleasure speaking to you. 8, i was a first wave environmental planner back in the mid '70s, so i'dhead of your ghost -- i'd heard of your ghost maps story. and in -- after i graduated i thought i'd kick around the idea of architecture plus ecology and play with computer models and satellite data late at night without authorization. [laughter] before the term hacker or geospatial intelligence technology was invented. anyway, i became a mr. mom in '82 because that was really going nowhere. today, however, it looks like, you know, cloud technology and c factor computing and a lot of these breakthroughs are going to make three dimensional environmental computing feasible. the problem i saw then was a global vision in a flat world, you know? we didn't really have a three dimensional philosophy. to work with this new technology. and i don't even see it there now. and it's kind of a little troubling, you know? a
. >> host: john in bellingham, washington, good afternoon. please go ahead with your question or comment for steven johnson. >> caller: hi, pleasure speaking to you. 8, i was a first wave environmental planner back in the mid '70s, so i'dhead of your ghost -- i'd heard of your ghost maps story. and in -- after i graduated i thought i'd kick around the idea of architecture plus ecology and play with computer models and satellite data late at night without authorization. [laughter]...
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is it fair to say george washington, maybe we don't learn the full story about george washington? >> we absolutely don't learn the full story about george washington and one of the reasons nation" and "a nation rising: untold tales of flawed founders, fallen heroes, and forgotten fighters from america's hidden history" is to tell those stories that schoolbooks leave out particular about george washington. most americans unfortunately still have feet cherry tree story in mind when they think of young washington. the story completely manufactured by adman who didn't know washington and made these stories up, a reader for children couched morality tale in terms of washington's life so the cherry tree story we can dismiss but unfortunately every president's day we will see the actors come out with an ax on their shoulder to job down the prices on cars. that stereotype of washington gets perpetuated. most people never hear the story of a 16-year-old washington, a true story from his own riding of going out into the virginia wilderness when he is a teenager with some men who were very i
is it fair to say george washington, maybe we don't learn the full story about george washington? >> we absolutely don't learn the full story about george washington and one of the reasons nation" and "a nation rising: untold tales of flawed founders, fallen heroes, and forgotten fighters from america's hidden history" is to tell those stories that schoolbooks leave out particular about george washington. most americans unfortunately still have feet cherry tree story in...
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goes to washington. he's 36 feet tall. he strives to the front of the line when they go to the white house to see president kennedy kennedy finishes his speech, bill clinton looks voting gets his picture taken with alongside of john f. kennedy. he so proud and he already is dedicated to the idea that he is going to be the person who will bring complete honor to the family. he already by the age of 17 is planning to be elected attorney general of arkansas, then governor of arkansas president of the united states. this is something which everyone who knows him knows about because he talks about it all the time. he does not go to the university of arkansas. he goes to georgetown. from georgetown to becomes the arkansas candidate and then goes to oxford. he's an incredible success everywhere, but he cannot have a sustained ongoing relationship with a woman. he's attracted to the kind of women as mother directs in two, the beauty queens, the ones who are flirtatious, who are attractive and that's really where his eyes at 10 unt
goes to washington. he's 36 feet tall. he strives to the front of the line when they go to the white house to see president kennedy kennedy finishes his speech, bill clinton looks voting gets his picture taken with alongside of john f. kennedy. he so proud and he already is dedicated to the idea that he is going to be the person who will bring complete honor to the family. he already by the age of 17 is planning to be elected attorney general of arkansas, then governor of arkansas president of...
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is it fair to say that george washington sometimes maybe we don't learn the full story about george washington? >> guest: we absolutely don't learn the full story about george washington, and one of the reasons i wrote america's hidden history and a nation rising-was to tell those stories the schoolbooks do leave out, and particularly about washington. most americans unfortunately still have the cherry tree story in mind when they think of young washington. the story is completely manufactured by a man who didn't know washington and made these stories up as a kind of reader for children, couched morality tales in terms of washington's life. so the cherry tree story we can dismiss. but unfortunately every president's day we'll see the actors come out with an axe on their shoulder and they're going to chop down the prices on cars, and so that's stereo type gets perpetuated. most people never hear the story of the do -- the true story of going out into the virginia wilderness, when he was a teenager, with some men who were very important in his life, his first surveying expedition, if you well, a
is it fair to say that george washington sometimes maybe we don't learn the full story about george washington? >> guest: we absolutely don't learn the full story about george washington, and one of the reasons i wrote america's hidden history and a nation rising-was to tell those stories the schoolbooks do leave out, and particularly about washington. most americans unfortunately still have the cherry tree story in mind when they think of young washington. the story is completely...